Deep water pipe, pump, and mooring study: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion program. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7260930· OSTI ID:7260930

Little, T E; Marks, J D; Wellman, K H

The ocean engineering issues affecting the design, construction, deployment, and operation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plants are of key importance. This study addressed the problems associated with the conceptual design of the deep-water pipe, cold-water-pumping, and platform mooring arrangements. These subsystems fall into a natural grouping since the parameters affecting their design are closely related to each other and to the ocean environment. Analysis and evaluations are provided with a view toward judging the impact of the various subsystems on the overall plant concept and to provide an estimate of material and construction cost. Parametric data is provided that describes mooring line configurations, mooring line loads, cold water pipe configurations, and cold water pumping schemes. Selected parameters, issues, and evaluation criteria are used to judge the merits of candidate concepts over a range of OTEC plant size from 100 MWe to 1000 MWe net output power.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Annapolis, Md. (USA). Oceanic Div.
• OSTI ID: 7260930
• Report Number(s): COO-2642-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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